Button-member for garters



Dec. 19, 1933. J. JACOBS BUTTON MEMBER FOR GARTERS Filed March 22, 1933 Patented Dec. 19, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1,940,215 BUTTON-MEMBER FOR GARTERS Joseph Jacobs, Bridgeport, Conn., assignor to The A. J. Donahue Corporation, Milford, Coma, a

corporation This invention relates to improvement in button-members for garters and particularly for garters including a button-loop and a; buttonmember mounted on a piece of tape which is suspended from the clip, the object of the invention being to so form the button-member that the tape may be secured thereto without sewing, and the invention consists in providing the base of the button-member with teeth adapted to enter the tape so as to firmly secure the button thereto without sewing. The invention further consists in the construction as hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is a front view of a button-member for garters shown in connection with a button-loop;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the button-memher detached, showing the loop extending downwardly over the back of the plate;

Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing the loop turned forwardly and downwardly;

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a modified form of button-plate; and

Fig. 6 is a sectional view illustrating the manner of connecting the tape therewith,

In carrying out my invention, I employ the usual button-loop 10, suspension-loop 11 and clip 12 connecting the two loops together. The button 13 is secured to a plate 14 having slots 15 and 16, and the top-bar 17 is extended and turned downward, forming a lip 18, the edge of which is provided with teeth 19. This lip 18 may be turned inwardly and downwardly from the plate, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawing, or turned forwardly and downwardly, as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawing.

One end 20 of a tape 21 is threaded through the slots 15 and. 16 and thence beneath the lip 18, while the other end 22 of the tape is passed over the clip 12 and thence downwardly, and the extreme end of the tape inserted, with the end 20, beneath the lip 18, which is then clamped down 66 so as to firmly connect the ends of the clip with the button-member, and this is done without sewing.

Instead of providing the teeth on a lip, these teeth may be formed on the lower edge of the top-bar 23 of the plate 14, as shown in Fig. 5 of the drawing, so that both ends of the tape 24 may be passed beneath the top-bar 23, the teeth 25 of which, while primarily slightly offset, are straightened so as to grip both ends of the tape in the upper loop 26, thus accomplishing the result previously described of connecting both ends of the tape with the button-member without sewing.

I claim:

1. A button-member for garters comprising a button, a plate on which the button is mounted, said plate formed with slots, and the upper edge of the plate formed with a tongue turned over upon the plate and having its edge formed with teeth.

2. The combination with a button-loop, a sus-v pension-loop, a clip connecting the same, of a button-member comprising a button, a plate to which the button is secured, said plate formed with slots, and the upper edge of the plate formed with a tongue turned over upon the plate and having its edge formed with teeth, a tape having one end threaded through said slots, thence passed-over the clip and downwardly therefrom, both ends of the tape being inserted beneath the tongue and clamped to the plate thereby.

JOSEPH JACOBS. 

